Daily Search Forum Recap: July 12, 2011

Jul 12, 2011 - 4:00 pm 0 — by

Here is a recap of what happened in the search forums today, through the eyes of the Search Engine Roundtable and other search forums on the web.

Search Engine Roundtable Stories:

  • YouTube Tests New Channel & Video Design
    Last week, YouTube announced a new design experiment for the channel and YouTube video watch pages. The new look is code named Cosmic Panda.
  • Google Images Source URL Via &surl=1
    Kelly from Google posted a technical document explaining how you can know the URL of the source image Google crawled via Google Images. Kelly posted the explanation in a Google Document but let me repeat most of it here...
  • Google Updates Product Search Feed Specs - September 22
    Google has announced very important and potentially costly changes for merchants who submit their feeds to Google Product Search. As of September 22, 2011...
  • Google Logo For 450th Anniversary Of St. Basil's Cathedral
    Today on many but not all Google properties is a special logo for the 450th anniversary of the St. Basil's Cathedral. It is a is a Russian Orthodox church built on the Red Square in Moscow in 1555â"61...
  • The Office 365 Car
    @steveplunkett spotted a Microsoft Office 365 car on the street and notified me. This isn't 100% search related but Microsoft runs Bing and Google creeps into office applications.

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